Junior Project Engineer- Virar - E

EXCITED ABOUT YOUR TASKS?

● Liaise with clients to understand role requirements in order to source the most suitable candidates

● Source, screen and compile a shortlist of qualified candidates for various technical roles

● Screen the candidates to ensure we put forward the best quality candidates to clients

● Recruit senior IT profiles, with a focus on functional expertise

●Communicate with hiring managers in order to understand vacancy requirements fully

● Establish a strategy in order to deliver suitable candidates on time

● Build and develop relationships with both clients and candidates to provide a high level of client and candidate service

● Connect and coordinate with external vendors to support hiring needs

● Serve the business at a very deep and high touch level

WHAT WILL YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?

● 1 year of full life-cycle IT Recruiting Experience, in either an agency or corporate setting

● Familiarity with different selection methods (screening, interviews, assignments)

● Excellent follow-up skills and ability to work independently and collaboratively in a hands-on, fast-paced environment with a high degree of ambiguity

● Must have Strong Knowledge of IT Technologies and skills

● Experience in handling multiple vendors.

● Great interpersonal and communication skills

● MBA in human resources or similar relevant field

Founder’s Office Associate

Location: Bhubaneswar

Type: Full-time 

About the Role:

As a Founder’s Office Associate at LPG Guru, you will work directly with the founding team to drive strategic initiatives across product, operations, and partnerships. You will be at the intersection of technology, business, and LPG distribution, helping streamline our product adoption and growth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct market and competitor research, providing actionable insights to improve product efficiency and positioning.
• Design SOPs, distributor onboarding processes, and automated workflows to ensure smooth day-to-day operations.
• Create pitch decks, reports, and documentation to support business growth, investor updates, and client deliverables.
• Drive projects related to product, distributor onboarding, and market expansion.
• Liaise between the tech team and business side to ensure alignment.
• Manage priorities, follow-ups, and cross-team communication.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree (MBA preferred but not mandatory).
• 0–1 year of experience in strategy or startup operations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset, with exposure to SaaS or B2B tools.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work in a high-growth, ambiguous startup environment.
• Proficiency with Google Sheets; basic scripting using Google Apps Script.
• Familiarity with Postmaster.
• Hands-on experience with CRM tools.
• Experience in workflow creation/automation.

Start Date: Immediate joining preferred.

Benefits / Perks

• 6-month internship to start.
• Performance evaluated against defined KPIs.
• High performers may receive a Pre-Placement Offer (PPO) for a full-time role

Learn more about us at lpgguru.in

Eligibility Criteria: 

1. Advanced knowledge of Magento, JavaScript, HTML, PHP, CSS, and MySQL.
2. Coding of the Magento templates.
3. Developing Magento modules in PHP using best practices.
4. Experience with complete eCommerce lifecycle development.
5. Understanding of modern UI/UX trends.
6. Knowledge of Google Tag Manager, SEO, Google Analytics, PPC, and A/B Testing.
7. Integration of Magento to SAP or similar ERP systems

• Required education qualifications: MBA
• Past experience: Consumer Tech companies with 1-3 years experience/ 5-7 years’ experience
• Exp. level -5-8 Yrs/MBA from Premium institute and from Consumer tech companies only

Customer Obsession:

• Understand the customer needs and personas
• Seek input from users and Identify stated/unstated needs and opportunity areas
• Deep dive on identified opportunities to establish Product Market Fit
• Develop mechanisms to have a regular connection with users of the product
• Active listener who pays attention to detail

Innovation:

• Use data/anecdotes to generate new product/feature ideas against organizational goals
• Translate intangible ideas in ambiguous environments to tangible product definitions
• Curious to try a host of features; rigor to iterate even if ideas do not pick up

Execution excellence:

• Manage the Product roadmap and strive to meet key milestones
• Ability to slice ideas into epics and stories
• Prioritize the stories into backlog
• Partner with Design for product/feature definition & Engineering to deliver stories in a timely manner
• Track launched features against intended objectives/metrics and drive adoption
• Continuously iterate to improve the product incrementally but rapidly

Stakeholder Management-

• Seek inputs from relevant stakeholders for backlog creation and prioritization
• Align internal stakeholders on product prioritization, backlog and roadmap
• Anchor the Go-To-Market planning along with internal stakeholders to manage a smooth launch

Responsibilities: -

• Designing of look-books and visually stunning collateral
• Understanding client’s needs
• Create engaging and on-brand graphics for various social media platforms

Requirements

• 1+ year of work experience
• Hands-on experience with layout design
• Degree in Design, Fine arts or Related field
• Work from office in Mumbai

About us:

Strata is a commercial real estate investment platform that offers investors the opportunity to invest in pre-leased commercial assets such as offices, warehouses, and retail spaces across India.

We are one of the fastest-growing PropTech platforms in India and are backed by Elevation Capital, Mayfield, Kotak Investment Advisors, Gruhas (a venture by Nikhil Kamath of Zerodha) and DLF Family Office.

Our headquarter is in Bangalore, India.

We are a small yet close-knit team of 35+ people.

About you:

You have a knack for product and strongly equipped with engineering skills to make it a reality. You don’t jump into implementation unless you have clearly understood the problem/requirements and have a written design. You don’t hesitate asking questions and giving critical reviews while respecting others’ opinions. You are a fearless engineer, and not afraid to fail, not on production though ;) You have a strong sense of ownership. You have a startup experience. You don’t feel annoyed if required to work on off days in case of production incidents (no development).

Your responsibilities:

You will primarily work on the backend maintaining the existing platform and writing new enhancements and features. Apart from your own features, as a senior member of the team you will be expected to be actively involved in overall design discussions and peer code reviews. You will factor in extensibility, maintainability, scalability and security in designs and code. You will ensure that best engineering practices are followed. You will support your team members when they are facing challenges, and mentor them when appropriate. You will strive for overall engineering excellence.

Must-have Skills:

• 4-8 years of total experience
• 2+ years of experience in Django and DRF. You must be pro at it. The team will be looking up to you for making most out of DRF.
• Designing and building  scalable web applications
• Good understanding of REST principles
• SQL database design and queries
• Working knowledge of AWS

Good-To-Have Skills:

• Angular or any other JavaScript frontend framework
• Designing microservices
• DevOps experience

FAQ's.

1. Your technology ingredients?

Programming languages:
Our backend is written in Python using Django framework. And the frontend is in AngularJS. Currently there is no mobile app.

Infrastructure:
We are an AWS shop and use their services for most needs, Docker for containerization and ECS as orchestrator, RDS as database, S3 for storage and SQS as messaging backend.

Other tools:
BitBucket for Git and CI/CD pipeline, Trello for project management; and Google Meets and Slack for communication.

2. Your hiring plan?

Currently the engineering team comprises of 3 engineers, and we plan to grow it to 8 by the end of 2021.

3. Your Interview process?

We will try to finish the process within two weeks. In case we can’t go ahead with  your candidature, we will clearly and immediately let you know. But in case of competing applications, we may request you to wait for a week or two.

1. 15 minutes introductory call to discuss requirements and expectations
2. 30 minutes online coding assignment on a screen sharing session
3. 1 hour technical interview covering problem solving, code review and aptitude
4. 15 minutes call with co-founder for final discussion

In case of inability to come to a conclusion from either side, we may go for an additional round.

4. Your WFH and WFO policy?

Due to Covid-19 the team is working from home and will continue till March-2022. After that we will work from the Bangalore or Pune office (yet to be finalised). You should be open to relocate to any of the cities.

5. Your funding status?

In March 2020, Strata raised $1.5 million in seed funding; and $6 million in Series-A in July 2021.

• Build hypotheses: It starts with identifying the problems by doing in-depth research with customers and cross-validating it with data analysis. We are razor-focused on solving the right problems:
• Identify solutions: You will be defining the requirements and working with a cross-functional team from design, engineering, business, marketing, and support. You will identify solutions that truly solve the user problem keeping business interests in mind
• Launch and iterate: No product is truly world-class in the first launch. Your job is not just to launch new products but also to work closely with other teams to ensure the go-to-market is completed from all sides. Additionally, you will also balance new product launches with iterating on existing products ensuring that you pick the ones that are most impactful
• Build roadmap: You will always have a roadmap for your product and you will constantly update the roadmap taking into account the rapid change of business dynamics as well as user behavior and segments that we would go after
• Help build the team: Participate in hiring cross-functional team members for different roles

You are a right fit if:

• You understand technology, but love customer-first & business-first thinking
• You are comfortable working hands-on in a fast-paced start-up environment
• You are good at problem-solving and have an analytical and data-driven approach to day-to-day work
• You have prior work experience in the tech-driven lending business
• You have at least 3 years of experience in Product Management
• You are in love with Bangalore weather and would enjoy working here :)

Why should you work with us?

• Work in one of the most exciting start-up sectors
• Opportunity to create impact for the blue-collar workforce
• Unique and unsolved problems for the unique customer segment to work on
• The non-hierarchical, flat, and transparent culture where we also have lots of fun
• Pay at par with market salaries